As an architect, you are designing a new house. A window has a height between 140 cm and 150 cm and a width between 74 cm and 70 cm. What are the smallest and largest areas that the window could be?

How many significant figures are in the value 60.780?

Estimate the average speed with which the hair on your head grows. Give your answer in both m/s and m/hour. Briefly describe how you arrived at this estimate.

How many significant figures are there in each of the following values? (d) 0.07 x 10^8

How many significant figures are there in each of the following values? (c) 75.0

A useful and easy-to-remember approximate value for the number of seconds in a year is π × 107. Determine the percent error in this approximate value. (There are 365.24 days in one year.)

With a wooden ruler, you measure the length of a rectangular piece of sheet metal to be 12 mm. With micrometer calipers, you measure the width of the rectangle to be 5.98 mm. Use the correct number of significant figures: What is (c) the perimeter of the rectangle?